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On gait and soft biometrics for surveillance

On gait and soft biometrics for surveillance
On gait and soft biometrics for surveillance
The prime advantage of gait as a biometric is that it can be used for recognition at a distance whereas other biometrics cannot. There is a rich selection of approaches and many advances have been made, as will be reviewed in this talk. Soft biometrics is an emerging area of interest in biometrics where we augment computer vision derived measures by human descriptions. Applied to gait biometrics, this again can be used where other biometric data is obscured or at too low resolution. The human descriptions are semantic and are a set of labels which are converted into numbers. Naturally, there are considerations of language and psychology when the labels are collected. After describing current progress in gait biometrics, this talk will describe how the soft biometrics labels are collected, and how they can be used to enhance recognising people by the way they walk. As well as reinforcing biometrics, this approach might lead to a new procedure for collecting witness statements, and to the ability to retrieve subjects from video using witness statements.
Nixon, Mark S.
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Nixon, Mark S.
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Nixon, Mark S. (2013) On gait and soft biometrics for surveillance. 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Krakow, Poland. 27 - 30 Aug 2013. (doi:10.1109/AVSS.2013.6636606).

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Abstract

The prime advantage of gait as a biometric is that it can be used for recognition at a distance whereas other biometrics cannot. There is a rich selection of approaches and many advances have been made, as will be reviewed in this talk. Soft biometrics is an emerging area of interest in biometrics where we augment computer vision derived measures by human descriptions. Applied to gait biometrics, this again can be used where other biometric data is obscured or at too low resolution. The human descriptions are semantic and are a set of labels which are converted into numbers. Naturally, there are considerations of language and psychology when the labels are collected. After describing current progress in gait biometrics, this talk will describe how the soft biometrics labels are collected, and how they can be used to enhance recognising people by the way they walk. As well as reinforcing biometrics, this approach might lead to a new procedure for collecting witness statements, and to the ability to retrieve subjects from video using witness statements.

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Published date: August 2013
Venue - Dates: 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Krakow, Poland, 2013-08-27 - 2013-08-30
Organisations: Vision, Learning and Control

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Local EPrints ID: 363306
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363306
PURE UUID: 1246d656-845e-4d0e-b893-853f77281e92
ORCID for Mark S. Nixon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-5934

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Date deposited: 20 Mar 2014 16:32
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:35

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